Let me preface this by stating that I’m currently 30 and apart from 2 months selling shoes to get some extra money at some point, I have not worked in either of these industries since I was 18.
Does anybody else hate the way that pop music constantly plays in these environments? I always felt at the time that it was oddly dystopian, a sort of “be happy” overtone to a job where I’d cleaned up period blood, poop, killed rats, seen fight, witnessed horrific racism, mental breakdowns and been threatened over a 99p cheeseburger more than once (can you guess where it is yet?).
Even now, sat in a cafe on a coffee break many years on, the overly positive music in the background just reminds me of that environment and makes uncomfortable. Even though the artists and albums have changed drastically, that overly positive upbeat tempo makes my skin crawl.